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THE  AMERICAN 


Golden  Rule  College 


FOR 


The  New  Christian  Era 


AUBURN,    CALIFORNIA 


* 


This  Character-Building   Circular   makes  a  Stimu- 
lating Text-Book  for  the  Daily  Use  of 
Golden  Rule  People 


Placer  County  Republican  Print, 
Auburn,   California. 


A  8  AS 


THE    AMERICAN 

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Golden    Rule    College 

FOR 

The  New  Christian  Era. 


A 

SOUL-BUILDING    SCHOOL    OF    IDEAL 
CHRISTIAN    LIFE. 


The    Best    Life    Possible    to    Man    Both    for 
Time  and  for  Eternity. 


A 

Co-Educational  School  of  Our  Best  Human  Endeav- 
ors and  Our  Highest  Christian  Ideals. 


Academical,  Commercial,  Industrial,  Hygienic. 

To  be 

Established,  Maintained  and  Conducted  under  the 
Incoming  Light  of  a  New  Era  in  the  Conditions  of 
Human  Society  and  of  a  Higher  Type  of  Religion 
in  all  Christendom. 


Auburn  City,  Placer  County,  California. 

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*  Institution  of 

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o^Promote   the    Practice   of 

Christian  Ideals  and  Encourage  the  Orderly  Devel- 
opment of  an  Ideal  Humanity— 

A  School  of 

the  New  and  More  Divine  Ideals  of  the  Incoming 
Clarified  Orthodoxy  and  New  Theology  of  the 
World's  Larger  Christianity — 

A  College  of 

Faith-Filed  Endeavors  to  Ultimate  Heaven  upon 
Earth  to  Exemplify  the  Known  Divine  Ideals  of 
human  Life,  human  Labor,  and  human  Learning, 
according  to  the  Spirit  of  the  Written  Word  as  its 
fuller  meanings  are  progressively  revealed  from  time 
to  time  to  spiritually  minded  men  and  women — 

A  School  of 
Natural,  Spiritual  and  Celestial  Ideals — 

A  School  of 
New  Era  Ideals  for  the  Young  and  the  Youthful — 

A  School  of 
Gospel  Ideals  for  all  Men  at  all  Times — 

A  School  of 
Angelic  Lives  in  a  Sin-burdened  World — 

A  School  of 
Saintly  Exertions  for  Redeeming  the  World — 

A  School  of 
Royal  Endeavors  to  always  Do  Right — 


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A  School  of 
Love  for  Each  Other  and  Good  Will  to  all  Men- 

A  School  of 
Faith  in  the  Ultimate  Brotherhood  of  Man— 

A  School  of 
Joyful  Submission  to  the  Dicipline  of  Life — 

A  School  of 
Constant  Progression  under  Leadings  Divine — 

A  School  of 
Freedom  from  Bondage  to  Human  Dogmatics — 

A  School  of 
Love  for  the  Doctrines  of  Angelic  Truth — 

A  School  of 
Prayer  without  Ceasing  in  Heart  or  in  Voice — 

A  School  of 
Life  that  is  a  Simple/7  Progressive  and  True — 

A  School  of 
Christlike  Ideals  for  His  Live  Business  World — - 

A  School  of 
Healthful  Environs  for  Body  and  Mind — 

A  School  of 
Motives  Divine  when  at  Work  or  at  Play — 

A  School  of 
Faith  and  Good  Works  every  Day  in  the  Year — 

A  School  of 
Bright,  happy  Thoughts  for  All  the  Dark  Days — 


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A  School  of 
Kind,  cheerful  Words  for  each  Sorrowing  Soul — 

A  School  of 
Wise  Preparations  for  Wide  Fields  of  Labor — 

A  School  of 

Wideness  of  View  quite  Unknown  to  this  Sect-bur- 
dened World — 

A  School  of 

Fitness  to  Seek  and  to  Save  the  Wayward  and  Lost— 

A  School  of 
Love  for  the  Lord  and  Service  for  Man — 

A  School  of 

Patience  and  Peace  mid  the  Cares  and  Confusions 
of  Everyday  Life — 

A  School  of 

Vital  Religion  that  Glows  in  the  Heart  and  Shines 

in  the  Life — 

A  School  of 

Love  for  those  Schools  that  have  Grandly  Outgrown 
all  Sectarian  Control — 

A  School  of 

Christian   Deportment  when   at  Home  or  Abroad, 
Alone  or  with  Others,  by  Night  or  by  Day — 

A  School  of 

Watchful  Endeavors  to  evermore  Live,  as  Dead  unto 
Sin  and  Alive  unto  God — 


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A  School  of 

Firmness  and  Kindness  in  Warring  with  Sin,  in 
Stemming  the  Tide  of  Sectarian  Pride  in  the  Church 
or  the  School,  in  the  Priest  or  the  Pew — 

A  School  of 

Boldness  to  Shun  and  Deplore  the  Useless  Tradi- 
tions and  Soul-deadening  Ways  of  Conventional 

Life— 

A  School  of 

Freedom  to  Follow  the  Forms  and  the  Customs  that 
Tend  to  Develop  our  Love  for  the  Lord,  for  the 
Neighbor,  and  the  Land  we  Inhabit  — 

A  School  of 

J(>37s  without  Measure  for  Everyday  People  who 
Cease  to  Do  Evil,  Learn  to  Do  Well  and  Walk  in 
the  Light  that  is  every  day  Given — 

A  School  of 

World-wide  Religion  under  Christian  Dominion, 
and  of  Oneness  in  Worship,  and  Love  in  the  Service 
of  One  personal  God,  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ-- 

A   School  of 

Earnest  Desire  and  Utmost  Endeavors  to  View  the 
whole  World,  and  our  Work  for  Each  Other,  from 
the  Clarified  Standpoint  af  the  Heavenly  Host — 

A  School  of 

Blessed  Attainments  in  Christian  Ideals,  by  the 
Eager  and  Earnest,  who  follow  the  Lord  with  the 
Push  and  the  Power  of  a  Warrior  that  Wins — 


A  School  of 

Constant  Endeovors  to  Live  and  be  Perfect,  in 
Body  and  Mind,  in  Love  and  Good  Works,  as  our 
Father  in  Heaven  is  Perfect  in  Love  to  all  Men,  to 
the  Good  and  the  Evil,  to  the  Just  and  the  Unjust — 

A  School  of 

Large  enough  Heart,  of  Pure  enough  Soul,  and  of 
Warm  enough  Love,  to  never  Disown  or  Reject  an}7 
Goodness  or  Faith  that  is  Found  in  the  High  or  the 
Low,  in  the  Learned  or  the  Unlearned,  how  ever 
much  Mixed  with  the  Evil  and  False — 

A  School  of 

Heartfelt  Rejoicings  in  All  lines  of  Progress,  in  All 
Divine  Methods  for  the  Wise  Reconstruction  of  All 
that  is  Human  in  the  Nations  of  Earth,  be  they 
Savage  or  Civil — 

A  School  of 

Strenuous  Endeavors  to  Never  be  Led  by  a  Friend 
or  a  Foe,  by  a  Smile  or  a  Tear,  by  a  Frown  or  a 
Jeer,  to  Stumble  and  Fall  from  our  Sunny  Plateau 
on  the  High  Mount  of  Blessing. 

But  all  who  ascend  this  Mountain  of  Blessing 
must  deign  to  go  down,  yes, 

"Low  down  through  that  beautiful  valley 
Where  love  crowns  the  meek  and  the  lowly." 


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A  school-college  that  endeavors  to  appreciate  the  com- 
pound fact  of  man's  finite  nothingness  and  God's  infinite 
Allness;  and  to  ever  bear  in  mind  that  the  climax  of  all 
spiritual  wonders,  and  essential  doctrines,  is  the  stupendous 
truth  that  God  is  everywhere  present,  like  the  light  of  the 
sun  at  midday,  and  that  He  "is  therefore  present  or  immanent 
in  man's  every  thought  and  action,  while  man,  at  the  same 
time,  is  consciously  in  the  freedom  of  his  own  sweet  will,  and 
can  do  right  or  wrong  just  as  he  pleases.  But  when  man  is 
filled  with  the  Spirit,  and  is  in  Divine  Order,  the  Lord  can 
work  in  with  him,  down  below  his  personal  consciousness, 
both  to  will  what  is  good  and  to  think  what  is  true. 

This  school-college  finds  perfect  satisfaction,  soul-rest 
and  abundant  spiritual  ailment  in  the  truths  of  the  Bible  just 
as  we  have  it  today. 

It  matters  little  to  us  whether  Divine  Love  and  Wisdom 
comes  through  the  language  of  historical  narrative,  parable, 
symbol;  science  or  song;  whether  written  by  this  one  or  that 
one,  or  by  God  Himself;  in  this  age  or  that  age,  or  before 
ages  were  counted.  For  the  more  we  study  the  Bible  with- 
out any  reference  to  the  human  side  of  it,  the  more  it  com- 
mends itself  to  our  best  judgment,  and  the  deeper  its  truths 
sink  into  our  hearts  and  lives. 

An  Institution  from  the  New  Heaven  and  for  the  New 
Earth,  and  for  workers  together  with  God  in  making  "all 
things  new." 

A  school  for  perfecting  the  saints,  for  evangelizing  the 
world,  and  for  the  personal  encouragement  of  all  those  who 
are  willing  to  pay  the  self-sacrificing  price  of  living  above  the 
world  while  yet  living  in  the  world — of  living  a  rational  and 
heavenly  life  upon  earth,  amid  present  unheavenly  surround- 
ings, "  cost  what  it  will,  lead  where  it  may." 

A  school  for  those  who  are  actually  hungering  and  thirst- 
ing after  personal  righteousness  and  heart  purity. 


A  school  for  the  present  attainment  of  moral,  spiritual 
and  physical  beaut)7,  by  obeying  the  Divine  laws  of  health, 
the  Divine  moral  and  spiritual  laws,  and  by  becoming  as 
large  partakers  as  possible  of  the  Lord's  Divine  Nature  and 
personal  Holiness. 

The  nearer  we  live  to  Him,  and  the  more  of  4<  the  beauty 
of  the  Lord  there  is  upon  us"  the  more  our  thoughts,  ideas 
and  actions  will  differ  from  the  average  people  round  about 
us,  and  the  more  we  shall  be  liable  to  be  treated  as  He  was 
treated  while  here  in  the  flesh. 

•  But  this  is  of  little  consequence  so  long  as  we  are  con- 
sciously at  one  with  Him  and  have  found  out  by  experience 
what  the  Divine  Atonement  really  means. 

A  school  of  spiritual  and.  eternal  verities  in  thought  and 
practice.  And  since  God's  teachings  and  providential  deal- 
ings with  men,  both  in  general  and  in  particular,  have  special 
reference  to  man's  spiritual  and  eternal  welfare,  therefore  the 
educational  plans  and  labors  of  this  character-building  college 
must  necessarily  fall  into  Divine  order,  and  follow  the  Divine 
leadings  by  continually  holding  up  to  view  the  spiritual  and 
eternal  side  of  things. 

A  thoroughly  Biblical  school  for  those  who  have  an 
intense  love  for  their  Bibles.  A  school  where  the  life-giving 
study  of  the  Divine  Word  itself,  and  the  soul-building  study 
of  the  Divine  Love  and  Wisdom,  as  manifested  in  science,  in 
art,  in  language,  in  music  and  in  all  the  realms  of  nature,  will 
have  a  prominent  place  in  all  its  methods  and  educational 
exercises. 

Man  should  study  the  Bible  at  least  one  day  out  of  seven 
and  practice  it  the  other  six. 

A  Golden  Age  School  for  the  Golden  Rule  People  is 
this  incoming  new  Era — this  Second  Coming  of  Christ  to  stand 
on  the  earth  in  His  body,  the  church.  And  it  will  be  con- 
ducted under  the  superior  light  of  this  new  Christian  Era, 


which  from  present  indications,  will  be  as  much  superior  to 
the  present  outgoing  Christian  Era,  as  that  was,  and  is, 
superior  to  the  ancient  Jewish  Era.  And  as  someone  says, 
4 'The  principles  of  Christianity  are  the  same  in  every  age,  yet 
they  require  to  be  retranslated,  reinterpreted,  and  readjusted 
to  every  age." 

A  Twentieth  Century  School  for  those  who  rejoice  in  the 
Divine  processes  of  radical  reconstruction  now  going  on  all 
over  the  world,  and  who  consequently  honestly  desire  to  make 
the  most  of  themselves  by  learning  to  think  right,  to  do  right, 
and  to  be  right,  at  all  times,  in  all  places,  and  under  all 
circumstances. 

A  delightful  school  for  all  progressive  young  men  and 
women  who  wish  to  acquire,  in  early  life,  the  High  Art  of 
Living  a  Golden  Rule  Life.  This  is  the  best  life,  the  highest 
life,  the  happiest  life,  the  most  useful  life,  and  the  most 
perfect  life  possible  to  man.  A  school  for  those  who,  to  this 
end,  are  ready  to  undertake  the  actual  practice  of  the  Biblical 
Ideals,  in  all  their  relations  in  social  life,  in  every  department 
of  school-life,  and  in  all  departments  of  manual  labor  and 
business  activity. 

A  heavenly  minded  school,  born  under  the  dawning  light 
of  the  Lord 's  progressive  methods  for  the  development  of  a 
world -wide  religion  in  His  New  Christian  Era. 

A  heart-enlarging,  soul-building  institution,  and  there- 
fore quite  different  in  spirit,  in  motive,  and  in  practice  from 
those  mind-building  institutions,  that  a  celebrated  Christian 
woman  calls  "Head-cramming  and  heart-robbing  institutions. ' ' 

And  it  is  devoutly  hoped  that  this  New  Era  School  for 
the  development  of  an  ideal  manhood  and  womanhood  may 
be  the  beginning  of  a  "new  departure"  that  shall  finally 
result  in  the  establishment  of  Divinely  symetrical  schools  all 
over  Christendom. 

This  is  an  intellectual  age,    and  mind-building  without 


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much  regard  to  heart-building,    seems  to  predominate  even 
among  well  meaning  Christian  institutions. 

It  is  therefore  a  sad  fact  that  many  a  students'  "brains 
are  educated  to  the  verge  of  imbecility,"  while  his  heart  is  left 
struggling  and  starving  in  the  mire  of  original  depravity. 

Men  and  women  are  created  to  become  the  exalted  images 
and  likenesses  of  the  infinite  Jehovah-Jesus  Himself.  But  how 
few  we  find  that  rise  above  the  immediate  gratifications  of 
their  lower  mental  and  animal  natures.  Their  higher  spiritual 
natures  are  left  dormant  and  undeveloped.  And  those  church 
members  who  have  never  been  truly  born  of  the  Spirit,  who 
take  their  Christianity  largely  from  other  Christians, "measur- 
ing themselves  by  themselves/ '  making  a  sad  failure  in  tr>ing 
to  live  a  Christian  life.  The  Lord  says  "look  unto  me" — not 
unto  men — "and  be  ye  saved." 

We  should  never  compare  ourselves  religiously  with  other 
people.  But  always  try  to  be  better  ourselves  today  than  we 
were  yesterday.  Don't  look  to  the  minister,  the  deacon,  or 
the  deaconess  for  your  example,  or  for  your  authority  in 
matters  of  faith,  but  to  the  Lord  alone. 

There  is  quite  a  large  class  of  church  members  who  readily 
assent  to  all  that  is  said  about  the  supreme  joys  and  advant- 
ages of  living  an  ideal  Christian  life,  and  who  at  times,  seem 
to  have  some  aspirations  toward  such  a  life,  and  yet  they 
never  have  the  energy,  the  grace,  or  the  grit  to  obtain  it. 

To  really  "put  off  the  old  man  and  put  on  the  new  man," 
requires,  on  our  part,  a  depth  of  consecration,  an  intensity  of 
effort,  and  a  degree  of  self-abandonment,  that  the  average 
Christian  knows  nothing  about. 

But  "the  Lover  of  our  souls"  never  asks  or  expects  to 
do  or  to  be  anything  that  we  cannot  successfully  do  and  be 
under  His  Divine  guidance  and  personal  help. 

A  homelike  School  for  well  rounded  Christian  character- 
building.  Where  all  are  trying  to  do  the  will  of  the  Lord  on 


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earth  as  it  is  done  in  Heaven.  Where  all  are  seeking  the 
best  possible  fitness  for  the  greatest  possible  usefulness*  Where 
some  are  studing  all  branches  necessary  to  a  symetrical  man- 
hood and  womanhood.  Where  all  teachers  and  students  are 
more  or  less  happily  engaged  afternoons  in  manual  labor,  and 
where  all  have  their  restful  hours  of  healthful  recreation.  So 
that  whether  we  eat  or  drink  or  whatsoever  we  do,  we  do  all 
to  the  glory  of  God. 

This  as  we  understand  it,  is  Bible  teaching,  and  success- 
ful Bible  living. 

The  religion  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  supremely  rational 
and  eminently  practical. 

And  although  in  this  school  we  knowingly  " 'transgress  the 
traditions  of  the  elders,"  (who  devised  the  tri-personal  theor}0> 
by  loving  and  serving  but  one  Personal  God,  even  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  in  Whom  we  see  our  kind  Heavenly  Father,  and 
from  Whom  we  recieve  the  witness  of  His  Holy  Spirit  in  our 
own  hearts  day  by  day;  yet  we  neither  despise  nor  ostracise 
those  good  people  who  have  not  yet  reached  this  supreme  point 
of  theological  consistency,  this  celestial  knowledge,  and  this 
doctrinal  satisfaction. 

In  the  glorified  personality  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the 
Lord  God  Almighty  was  " translated  into  human  language" 
and  clearly  presented  to  human  view  in  a  more  easily  approach- 
able and  loveable  Human  Form. 

"No  man  hath  seen  God,"  in  His  absolute  entity,  ''at 
any  time."  But  by  the  marvels  of  Divine  mercy  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  human  race,  the  invisible  Fatherhood  has  embodied 
Himself  ma.  Divine-Human-Manhood;  So  that  now  we  have 
no  excuse  for  not  seeing,  and  loving,  and  worshiping  the  here- 
tofore invisible  Divine  Fatherhood  in  the  present  visible  Per- 
sonality of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  And  hence  no  one  can  now 
worship  the  invisible  Father,  in  spirit  and  in  truth,  outside  of 
our  Divine-Human  Savior,  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  (See  John 


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14:6 — ii.)  In  Whom  dwelleth  all  the  fullness  of  the  Godhead 
bodily. 

There  are  many  good  people  in  the  churches  today  who 
are  hampered  in  their  usefulness,  and  dwarfed  in  their  de- 
velopment, by  holding  old  and  erronious  ideas  of  God  and 
the  Bible. 

The  personal  teachings  and  actions  of  the  infinite  God  in 
Christ,  Jehovah  in  Jesus,  give  us  a  religious  standard, a  climax 
in  Divine  revelation,  that  rises  above  all  other  standards  and 
revelations  given  in  the  Bible,  for  they  come  to  us  directly 
through  the  mouth  and  presence  of  God  Himself  while  here 
in  the  flesh.  Others  come  to  us  as  it  were,  second  hand 
through  finite  men. 

'  'Jesus  Himself  stands  committed  to  no  ecclesiastical  pro- 
gram. He  wore  no  ecclesiastical  spectacles."  Neither 
would  we.  And  this  School  endeavors  to  rise  well  above  all 
human  sectarianism  and  labor  for  the  advancement  of  the 
kingdom  of  God,  the  supreme  will  of  God,  in  the  hearts  and 
lives,  in  the  plans  and  actions,  of  all  people  in  the  world 
universal. 

Each  man  is  a  minimum  universe,  and  when  spiritually 
regenerated  and  properly  educated  he  finds  himself  sublimely 
in  tune  with  the  Infinite  God  of  the  universe.  And  then  his 
life  is  worth  living,  and  his  religion  worth  having. 

We  are  all  born  of  the  flesh  before  we  are  born  of  the 
Spirit.  And  what  a  wide  difference  there  is  interiorly  between 
a  spiritual  man  and  a  natural  man ;  between  a  clean  old  man 
going  up  to  heaven  with  a  song  in  his  mouth,  and  a  vile  old 
man  going  down  to  distruction  with  a  pipe  in  his  mouth. 

The  spiritual  man  has  been  born  into  a  new  world  of 
superior  thought  and  feeling,  that  of  the  natural  man  knows 
nothing  about.  The  spiritual  man,  as  to  his  interior  life,  is  in 
harmony  with,  and  partakes  of,  the  delightful  thoughts  and 
blissful  feelings,  of  those  now  in  heaven  who,  by  the  I^ord  are 


sent  forth  to  minister  to  them    who  shall  be  heirs  of  salvation. 
Heb.  1:14. 

This  is  Divine  spirituality  of  which  modern  spiritualism 
is  a  very  poor  counterfeit. 

The  natural  man  has  no  desire  for,  or  no  ability  to  receive » 
spiritual  truth.  He  does  not  like  the  Bible  because  it  brings 
to  light  his  own  inner  wrongness,  and  shows  him  plainly  his 
personal  sin  and  inexcusable  defects. 

Hence  it  is  not  expected  that  those  young  persons  who 
have  a  more  intense  love  for  self  and  the  world,  than  they 
have  for  the  Lord  and  the  neighbor,  will  desire  to  enter  this 
heavenly  school  of  Ideal  Human  Life. 

They  will  not,  they  cannot,  without  being  born  of  the 
Spirit  honestly  undertake  to  live  an  ideal  Christian  life,  in  all 
particulars  during  the  light  of  the  day  and  the  darkness  of 
the  night.  For  an  evil. tree  cannot  bring  forth  good  fruit. 

But  whenever  they  decide  to  comply  with  the  Divine  con- 
ditions: "repent,"  "cease  to  do  evil  and  learn  to  do  well,"  we 
shall  be  glad  to  receive  them,  to  encourage  them,  and  to  show 
them  how  to  overcome  "the  world,  the  flesh  and  the  devil," 
quickly,  easily,  and  triumphantly. 

We  may  well  expect  some  sort  of  trials  and  temptations 
every  day  we  live,  and  everywhere  we  go.  We  need  them, 
especially  in  early  and  middle  life.  For,  by  Divine  Provi- 
dence, the  only  way  we  can  progress  heavenward  rapidly,  is 
by  patiently  enduring  trials,  and  resolutely  overcoming 
temptations. 

And  the  severity  of  these  testings  grow  less  and  less  as 
we  ourselves  grow  more  and  more  heavenly  in  heart  and  life; 
until  finally  we  enter  the  Land  of  Canaan,  that  Sabbath  state 
or  "Rest  Life,"  where  we  trust  the  Lord  so  completely  that 
He  fights  all  our  battles  for  us,  and  the  walls  of  Jericho  fall 
down  flat  before  us. 

And  it  is  a  great  comfort  to  know,  what  so  few  people 


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seem  to  know,  that  the  human  side  of  Christ's  nature  was 
just  like  our  human  nature,  or  he  could  have  never  been 
tempted  in  all  points  just  as  we  are  tempted.  And  that  the 
imperfect  human  side  of  His  nature  was  "perfected,"  that  is, 
brought  into  harmony  with  the  Divine  side  of  His  nature, 
through  trials  and  suffering,  just  as  our  imperfect  human 
natures,  through  trials  and  sufferings,  are  perfected  and 
brought  into  harmony  with  Him  and  thus  fitted  for  the  society 
of  Heaven. 

He  never  yielded  to  temptation  and  is  therefore  prepared 
to  keep  us  from  yielding  when  we  trust  Him  perfectly. 

Question:     Why  did  the    L,ord    God  Almighty  manifest 
Himself  in  human  flesh? 

1.  To  destroy  the  works   of  the  devil  in  us  and  round 
about  us.     i  John  3:8. 

2.  To  save  His  people  from  their  sins.     Mat.  1:21. 

3.  To  make  His  Divine  Personality  visible  to  human  eyes 
and   thus   give  us   a   definite   object  to  love  and  to  worship. 
John   1:18. 

4.  To  perfect  His  eternal  plans  for  making  a  heaven  out 
the  human  race.     John  3:16. 

Some  people  say  that  evils  and  sins  are  not  realities,  but 
mere  mental  illusions,  abstractions  or  seemings.  But  I  know 
from  much  personal  experience,  that  the  unseen  powers  of 
darkness,  the  hordes  of  evil  spirits  that  are  around  us  and 
sometimes  in  us,  and  that  we  all  need  for  dicipline,  and  who 
induce  all  the  evil  thoughts  and  actions  that  we  ever  have,  are 
just  as  active  and  just  as  real  when  out  of  the  body  as  they 
were  while  in  the  body.  And  that  they  are  just  as  real  in 
person  and  in  effect  as  you  and  I  are  today.  Those  who  do 
not  believe  in  the  reality  of  these  unseen  enemies  are  just  the 
ones  to  be  the  more  easily  deceived  by  them.  Such  persons 
need  to  study  their  Bibles  more  carefully.  To  say  there  is 
"no  evil,"  "no  sin;"  is  to  say  there  are  no  evil  spirits  that  are 


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continually  leading  people  to  commit  sin,  to  do  evil  things, 
and  that  we  must  needs  overcome. 

To  deny  the  existence  and  the  power  of  evil  spirits  is  just 
as  false  and  just  as  foolish  as  it  is  to  deny  ones  own  existence. 

And  altho  man  is  born  with  a  mixed  nature,  good  and 
evil,  he  is  also  born  with  ample  ability  to  choose  between  the 
two;  so  that  he  can  make  himself  a  happy  "son  of  God,"  or  a 
miserable  "child  of  the  devil",  just  which  he  chooses. 

The  Bible  itself  is  a  long  and  helpful  history  of  the  con- 
tending powers  of  good  and  evil.  And  a  conscious  salvation 
from  "the  wiles  of  the  devil,"  from  these  unseen  powers  of 
darkness,  by  means  of  the  Bible,  is  the  greatest  thing  that  ever 
comes  to  a  human  being. 

The  great  business  of  life  is  to  learn  how  to  tell  the  differ- 
ence between  good  and  evil,  so  that  we  may  ever  be  able  to 
refuse  the  evil  and  choose  the  good.  Heb.  5:14. 

And  we  should  ever  bear  in  mind  the  fact  that,  in  and  of 
ourselves,  we  are  none  of  us  "good,"  for  there  is  none  good 
but  One,  that  is  God. 

All  "new  thoughts,"  and  there  are  many,  that  are  in  har- 
mony with  the  teachings  of  the  Bible  and  with  sanctified  com- 
mon sense,  we  gladly  accept  and  use.  But  we  would  never 
forget,  that  to  a  well  balanced  mind,  optimism  and  pessimism 
are  each  halves  of  one  very  important  whole. 

The  Divine  Incarnation  was  a  greater  work  and  a  deeper 
work  than  most  people  suppose.  Jehovah  in  Jesus  came  down 
from  the  highest  heaven  to  the  lowest  depths  of  our  earthly  na- 
tures and  He  is  therefore  able  and  anxious  to  save  to  the  very 
uttermost  all  who  freely  and  willingly  comply  with  His  lov- 
ing and  reasonable  conditions  of  salvation. 

So  that  an  ideal  Christian  life  (and  there  is  no  other  ideal 
life)  is  a  victorious  life  from  beginning  to  end.  For  we  are 
always  more  than  conquerors  through  Him  that  loved  us. 
When,  in  the  name  of  the  Lord,  we  resist  the  devil  he  flees 


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from  us.  When  there  comes  a  desire  to  do  wrong  and  we  re- 
fuse to  do  it,  we  gain  a  victory,  we  advance  heavenward. 

But  all  church  members,  or  others,  who  are  trying  to 
"follow  the  Lord  afar  off,"  and  in  their  own  strength,  have  a 
hard  time  of  it  in  this  world,  and  a  doubtful  preparation  for 
the  next.  Afl  schemes  of  self-salvation  are  miserable  failures. 

To  be  saved  from  self  and  sin,  means  to  be  so  completely 
filled  with  the  Spirit  of  Christ  that  evil  spirits  cannot  come  in 
and  influence  us  to  do  wrong. 

Many  people  think  it  a  very  difficult  matter  to  live  a  true 
Christian  life.  This  is  a  great  mistake.  For  a  true  Christian 
life  is  the  only  normal  and  orderly  life  possible  to  man.  It  is 
the  easiest  and  most  rational  life.  The  nearer  we  live  to  the 
Lord  the  easier  the  life. 

Human  machinery  out  of  order,  out  of  oil,  out  of  har- 
mony, runs  hard.  So  a  human  life  out  of  harmony  with  the 
Divine  Plan  runs  hard.  But  in  harmony  and  well  filled  with 
the  oil  of  Divine  love,  human  life  runs  easily  and  without 
friction. 

But  in  religion,  as  in  everything  else,  "that  which  costs 
nothing  is  worth  nothing."  And  to  enjoy  the  inexpressible 
blessings  and  benefits  of  an  ideal  Christian  life,  one  must  give 
up,  or  sell  out,  everything  that  comes  in  competition  with  the 
will  of  God  in  that  life.  And  yet  we  really  give  up  nothing 
that  is  worth  keeping.  We  give  up  only  sin  and  selfishness, 
and  they  are  always  a  positive  damage  to  both  soul  and  body. 
No  one  can  take  in  the  superior  blessedness  of  heaven  until 
the  inferior  pleasures  of  sin  are  out  of  the  way.  Heaven  and 
hell  are  opposites  and  cannot  both  dwell  in  the  same  soul  at 
the  same  time. 

Every  human  being  has  a  two  fold  nature.  A  natural 
and  a  spiritual  nature.  The  natural  or  outward  nature  is 
visible  to  the  natural  eyes,  but  the  spiritual  nature  or  spiritual 
man  is  visible  only  to  spiritual  eyes.  And  man's  spiritual 


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capacity  to  know  spiritual  things  is  just  as  valid  and  just  as 
important,  if  not  more  so,  than  his  capacity  to  know  natural 
things. 

Sinful  people  are  afraid  to  face  the  spiritual  and  heart- 
searching  truths  of  the  Bible, 

But  the  daily  study  of  the  Divine  or  spiritual  side  of 
things  is  as  much  more  important  than  the  study  of  the 
natural  and  human  side  of  things,  as  our  spiritual  lives  are 
longer  and  more  important  than  our  natural  lives.  Let  us 
learn  to  look  at  everything  in  the  rational  light  of  eternity. 

O  that  our  }Toung  people  had  wisdom  enough,  and  per- 
sonal energy  enough,  to  take  the  best  possible  care  of  soul  and 
body,  and  thus  be  of  the  greatest  possible  use  to  the  world, 
and  get  the  greatest  possible  amount  of  happiness  out  of  this 
present  life. 

Christian  perfection  in  bod}7  and  mind  and  life  is  the  only 
thing  that  brings  perfection  in  happintss. 

An  ideal  person  is  one  who  lives  up  to  his  highest  con- 
victions of  right,  does  all  the  good  he  can,  and  adapts  himself 
wisely  and  contentedly  to  his  immediate  surroundings,  "be  it 
ever  so  humble." 

And  right  here  it  may  be  said  that  this  New  Era  School 
of  Ideal  Life  on  earth  stands  firmly  and  fearelessly  amid  the 
present  conceit  and  confusion  of  the  vaiious  religious  systems 
and  beliefs  for  the  one  ideal  universal,  all-comprehensive  and 
absolute  religion  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

And  as  to  my  personal  development  and  experiences  I 
will  frankly  state  that  I  was  converted,  that  is,  I  received 
the  baptism  of  John  unto  repentance  and  remission  of  sins, 
fifty-six  years  ago,  and  have  been  a  progressive  and  working 
member  of  the  Congregational  Church  and  Sabbath  School 
from  that  day  to  this.  Twenty-three  years  ago  I  received  that 
wonderful  "Second  Blessing,"  as  Wesley  calls  it, — or  the 
baptism  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  as  John  calls  it. 


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This  opened  my  heart  and  eyes  into  a  new  world  of  love 
and  light,  and  took  the  last  remains  of  selfish  sectarianism 
out  of  me,  and  brought  me  to  a  point  where  I  seemed  to  be 
given  "an  understanding  heart  to  judge  between  the  good  and 
the  bad,"  and  to  readily  say  yea,  yea,  to  what  is  good  and 
triae,  and  nay,  nay,  to  what  is  evil  and  false. 

This  state  of  mind,  however,  by  a  selfrighteous  person, 
will  be  called  "egotism;"  by  a  sanctified  person  wall  be  called 
"spiritual  perception." 

And  having  hereafter  received  a  baptism  of  love  so  per- 
fect that  it  cast  out  all  fear  (the  third  baptism  of  "fire"  perhaps) 
that  I  have  been  greatly  blessed  as  occasions  presented,  in  get- 
ting much  knowledge  outside  of  what  is  called  "evangelical 
orthodoxy."  Have  found  out  that  the  so-called  religious 
"isms  and  ologies"  are  not  to  be  haughtily  despised;  for  they 
hold  many  Divine  truths  that  would  be  of  use  to  all  who 
desire  to  live  a  well  rounded  Christian  life. 

And  I  have  also  found  out  that  the  wise  and  heavenly 
teachings  of  the  great  Emmanuel  Swedenborg,  that  are  so 
unaccountably  misunderstood  and  misrepresented,  even  by 
leading  editors  of  orthodox  papers,  who  ought  to  know  better, 
do  actually  contain,  for  devout  and  spiritually  minded  people, 
more  religious  philosophy,  more  heart-searching  and  heaven 
inspiring  truths  than  can  be  found  in  any  other  religious 
writer  oustide  of  the  Bible. 

But,  the  needless  ignorance  of,  and  the  selfish  prejudice 
against,  the  heavenly  teachings  of  Emmanuel  Swedenborg, 
keeps  many  a  soul  groping  in  the  dust  and  darkness  of  this 
earth,  that  might  and  ought  to  be  living  and  walking  in  the 
light  of  heaven. 

This  common  narrow-minded  fear  of  being  hurt  by  the 
ideas  of  other  people,  who  are  just  as  good  and  just  as  wise  as 
we  are,  and  that  so  dwarfs  and  belittles  the  souls  of  men,  is 


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the  greatest  known  hindrance  to  Christian    progress   heaven- 
ward. 

Swedenborg  destroys  no  doctrine  that  orthodoxy  holds 
dear.  But  he  prunes,  illuminates  and  rationally  explains 
every  doctrine  and  every  so-called  "mystery"  that  Christen- 
dom is  still,  and  needlessly,  puzzeling  over  today. 

I  am  by  no  means  an  orthodox  Swedenborgean.  But 
ever  since  I  received  those  illuminating,  love-abounding 
baptisms,  and  especially  since  my  sixth  or  spiritual  sense  was 
opened,  I  have  been  an  earnest  student  of  the  soul-inspiring, 
soul-building  writings  of  Swedenborg,  in  connection  with 
other  theological  writings.  And  for  the  last  three  or  four 
years  I  have  carefully  and  prayerfully  followed  a  daily  course 
of  readings  in  his  writings  in  connection  with  the  daily 
Scriptural  readings  in  the  Sunday  School  Times.  And  hence, 
by  Divine  grace,  have  received  an  uplift  heavenward  that  no 
human  language  can  express,  and  that  no  other  course  of 
reading  could  have  equaled. 

But  people  generally  care  more  for  trantient  things  than 
for  eternal  truths.  And  nothing  is  more  unaccountable  to  me 
than  the  stern  fact  that  every  unsanctified  human  mind  pos- 
sesses almost  infinite  resources  for  resisting  the  introduction  of 
spiritual  knowledge — the  most  important  of  all  knowledge. 

This  resistence  comes  from  personal  submission  to  the 
unseen  powers  of  darkness.  Therefore,  choose  ye  this  day 
whom  ye  will  serve.  He  who  studies  the  Bible  and  the  king- 
dom of  God  on  earth,  mainly  through  the  publications  of  any 
one  religious  denomination,  or  any  one  religious  system, 
becomes  and  remains  necessarily  one-sided  and  narrow- 
minded.  And  this  selfish  sectarianism  today,  I  repeat,  is  the 
greatest  known  drawback  to  the  progress  of  Biblical  religion. 

As  for  myself  I  verily  believe  that  the  Fire  of  Divine  Love, 
found  more  especially  among  the  holiness  people,  and  the 
Light  of  Divine  Truth,  found  in  fullness  only  in  the  celestial 


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teachings  of  Swedenborg,  have  by  Divine  grace,  harmoniously 
blended  in  my  own  soul,  and  have  unitedly  formed  a  most 
glorious  and  Abiding  Heaven.  O  what  blesedness  and  glory 
would  fill  the  Christian  church  at  large  if  the  old  selfish 
sectarianism  was  forever  dead,  and  all  hearts  were  wide  open 
to  receive  and  exemplify  this  true  Methodist  Fire  and  this 
bright  Swedenborgian  Light.  It  is  so  much  better  to  be  filled 
with  all  the  possible  light  and  fullness  of  God,  than  to  remain 
in  needless  ignorance  and  be  partly  filled  with  self. 

But  really  what  is  this  "great  salvation"  that  the  Bible 
speaks  of,  and  that  we  talk  so  much  about  ?  What  are  we 
saved  from  ?  Why  do  we  need  such  radical  reconstruction  ? 

Well,  by  Divine  Providence  or  Permission  we  are  sinners 
in  two  directions.  We  are  all  born  without  our  own  knowl- 
edge or  consent,  with  a  natural  or  inbred  wrongness  of  heart, 
that  is  not  in  harmony  with  the  interior  Tightness  of  God. 
And  this  inborn  wrongness,  together  with  our  outward  en- 
vironment, leads  us  eventually  to  wrongness  in  outward 
actions. 

But  we  are  all  endowed  with  that  supreme  blessing  called 
"freedom  of  choice,"  without  which  we  would  not  be  human 
beings.  And  hence,  if  we  choose  to  put  forth  our  own  best 
efforts,  and  look  to  Johovah-Jesus  for  help,  we  can  cease  to  do 
evil  outwardly  and  be  cleansed  from  the  evils  within.  I  am 
glad  that  we  are  born  just  as  we  are.  For  as  the  little  acorn 
could  never  become  a  mighty  oak  without  overcoming  the 
down-pulling  power  of  the  earthly  attraction,  so  we  could 
never  become  fit  for  the  high  and  holy  society  of  the  Lord  and 
His  holy  angels  without  overcoming  the  down-pulling  power 
of  our  earthly  natures. 

Therefore  we  recognize  and  teach  the  importance  of 
understanding  the  Three  Degrees  in  Grace  as  set  forth  in 
Mathew  3:11,  Luke  3:16  and  John  3:5: 

i.     Convertion,  or  the  Baptism  of  John   unto  repentence 


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and  remission  of  sins — not  inbred  sin  but  outward  sins — and 
which  results  in  a  good,  clean  and  consistent  moral  life,  visible 
to  the  eyes  of  all  men.  But  this  is  a  preparatory  Moral 
Salvation  and  nothing  more.  Yet  it  seems  to  be  all  that  many 
church  members  ever  desire  or  work  for. 

2.  Sanctification,  or  Baptism  of  the  Spirit,  cleanses  from 
inbred   sin,    and  opens  the  soul   into   what  Christ   calls  the 
kingdom  of  heaven  where  "the  least  are  greater"   than  John 
and  those  under  his  Baptism  only.     This  is  Spiritual  Salvation, 
and  immeasurably  higher  and  deeper  and  sweeter  than    moral 
salvation.     You  will  find  one  or  more  in  almost  every  evan- 
gelical church  that  has  received  this  wonderful  Baptism  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  and  are  therefore  actually  within  the  kingdom  of 
heaven. 

3.  The  third  and  final  Baptism  of  Fire,  or  '  'perfect  love, ' ' 
burns  away  the  least  and  last  remains  of  dross  and  melts  one 
down   completely  with  an  overwhelming  love  for  everybody 
and  everything,  good,  bad,  or  indifferent,  friends,   neighbors, 
or  enemies,  and    makes  him   a  veritable  Peacemaker.      You 
may  not  meet  half  a  dozen  persons  in  a   lifetime  who   have 
been  humble,   teachable,   and   progressive  enough  to  receive 
this  last  or  Celestial  Baptism.      These  three  Divine  Baptisms, 
progressive  and  distinct,  can  be   understood  and  appreciated 
by    those   only   who    have    been    given  the  experience.     Ex- 
perience can  explain  passages  that  human  reason  cannot. 

The  Lord  graciously  confers  these  spiritual  baptisms  as 
we  progress  in  love  and  good  works,  and  just  as  fast  as  we 
are  prepared  to  receive  and  use  them. 

There  are  two  kinds  of  love  mentioned  in  the  Bible, 
benevolent  love  and  selfish  love — heavenly  fire  and  hell  fire. 
And  we  sing,  "O  may  my  love  to  Thee,  pure,  warm  and 
changless  be  a  living  fire.'" 

Christians  see  things  from  widely  different  standpoints 
according  to  the  degree  of  grace  they  have  received.  The 


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majority  still  see  as  through  a  glass  darkly.     The  few  see  as 
it  were  by  the  angelic  light  of  heaven. 

It  is  a  wonderful  blessing  to  be  born  into  God's  great 
universe  of  mind  and  matter.  And  the  deeper  and  richer  ones 
personal  experiences  are,  and  the  more  knowledge  he  has  of 
God  and  eternal  things,  the  more  he  feels  his  own  littleness 
and  the  limitations  of  his  own  ignorance. 

A  perfect  Christian,  as  I  understand  perfection,  is  one 
who,  like  Zacharias  and  Elisebeth,  lives  a  ''blameless"  life; 
not  necessarily  a  faultless  life,  but  a  truly  blameless  life,  Luke 
1:6.  Perfect  Christians  are  simply  the  blameless  and  harm- 
less children  of  God,  without  blemish  in  the  midst  of  a 
crooked  and  perverse  generation,  among  whom  they  shine  as 
lights  in  the  world.  Phil.  2:15. 

The  ideal  Christian,  with  Bible  in  hand,  always  lives  up 
to  his  own  highest  convictions  of  right.  He  never  frets, 
never  worries,  no  matter  what  happens;  and  is  never  distressed 
when  disappointed.  He  has  "the  joy  of  the  birds,  and  the 
freedom  of  the  wind  and  the  wave."  This  is  undoubtedly 
God's  ideal  of  our  human  life  on  earth. 

The  heavenly  thoughts  and  ideals  of  human  life  presented 
in  this  evangelizing  circular  are  not  based  on  fine  human 
theories,  but  on  more  than  twenty  years  of  most  blessed  and 
positive  personal  experience.  If  ye  know  Divine  truths, 
blessed  are  ye  also  if  ye  do  them .  See  John  13:18. 

Most  people  are  evermore  devising  ways  and  means  for 
enjoying  themselves,  Yes,  themselves  in  particular.  Not 
knowing  that  if  they  would  follow  the  all-wrise  Divine  ways 
and  means  for  the  normal  enjoyment  of  Him  and  His  heav- 
enly things,  instead  of  the  abnormal  enjoyment  of  themselves, 
they  would  be  ten  times  better  and  happier  than  they  are  now. 
For  perfection  in  happiness  comes  from  perfection  in  Christian 
character  and  from  nothing  else.  The  poor,  ignorant  outside 
world  at  its  best,  enjoys  only  the  froth  and  scum  of  true 


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happiness.  It  can  be  readily  seen  that  this  school  is  not 
designed  for  the  wayward  and  eviltninded,  who  need  constant 
watching  and  occasional  dicipline,  but  for  those  who  are 
already  genuine  Christians,  or  who  sincerely  desire  to  become 
such,  and  who  are  therefore  a  law  unto  themselves,  and  be- 
57ond  the  need  of  any  human  rulers. 

People  sometimes  tell  me  that  I  am  a  hundred  years 
ahead  of  my  time.  If  so,  well  and  good.  Let  us  have  an 
Educational  Institution  that  shall  encourage  and  develope  a 
great  host  of  high  minded  hundred  year  people. 

It  can  be  readily  seen  that  this  School  of  Universal 
Christian  Ideals  has  before  it  a  very  wide  field  of  usefullness, 
and  that  it  undertakes  to  teach  some  important  things  about 
God  Himself,  about  His  heaven  above,  and  about  His  church 
below,  that  Christians  generally  do  not  know,  and  that  all 
Christians  might  and  ought  to  know 

Unless  this  school  could  give  some  new  and  needful  light 
on  spiritual  things  there  would  be  no  call  for  its  existence. 

Our  aged  Professor  in  Yale  Seminary  used  to  tell  us  that 
"True  humanity  was  a  just  estimate  of  ones  own  ability." 

We  overcome  the  dragon  of  selfishness  by  the  blood  of  the 
Lamb  and  by  the  word  of  our  testimony.  See  Rev.  12:11. 
Hence  I  have  given  some  personal  testimony. 

If  any  person  reads  this  paper  who  is  not  now  living  on 
as  high  a  plane  of  Christian  life  as  he  knows  he  might  and 
ought  to  live,  it  is  sincerely  hoped  that  he  will  not  try  to 
discourage  others  and  pull  them  down  to  his  own  level,  but 
will  rather  make  a  complete  surrender  of  himself  to  the  will 
of  God,  and  come  up  speedily  and  joyfully  on  the  highway  of 
holiness,  where  he  can  evermore  have  the  supreme  satisfaction 
of  walking  and  talking  with  the  Lord  Jesus  in  the  mountain 
of  His  holiness. 

This  Institution  extends  the  right  hand  of  fellowship  to 
all  sincere  Christians  who  worship  and  serve  the  Lord  Jesus 


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Christ,  in  Whom  is  the  Father,  and  from  Whom  we  receive 
the  Holy  Spirit.  It  respects  all  religious  organizations  and 
creeds,  but  is  limited  by  none. 

It  maintains  lasting  gratitude  to  the  present  outgoing 
orthodoxy  which  has,  notwithstanding  its  errors,  led  many  of 
us  successfully  into  the  kingdom  of  heaven,  and  up  to  a  point 
where  we  can  see,  receive,  and  enjoy  the  clearer  light  and 
superior  blessedness  of  the  incoming  new  and  clarified 
orthodoxy,  and  that  rises  above  all  sectarian  differences. 

It  will  be  conservative  enough  to  thankfully  retain  and 
use  all  the  great  fundamental  truths  of  the  old  and  passing 
dispensation,  and  progressive  enough  to  gladly  accept  and  use 
the  good  and  true  found  in  the  incoming  new  dispensation. 
And  will  be  helpfull  to  people  of  all  denominations,  and  all 
religions.  The  Lord  saves  people  out  of  all  religions,  be  they 
orthodox,  heterodox  or  heathen. 

A    PERSONAL    QUESTION. 
In  God's  great  plans  He  needeth  me, 
Or  in  this  world  I  should  not  be. 
Can  I  assist  this  New  Age  School, 
That  doth  exalt  His  Golden  Rule, 
Where  old  and  young  this  rule  obey, 
As  each    hath    light   from    day    to    day  ? 
This  school  stands  for  the  practice  and  development  of  a 
plain,    simple,  rational  and  practical  life  among  men  as  they 
are,   and   gladly    undertakes    to  obey  the   Divine  commands: 
Be   ye   holy   for   I  am    holy.       Walk  before  me  and  be  thou 
perfect.       This   school   does  not  reject  the  Christian  Ideals  as 
impracticable. 

But  not  long  ago  the  editor  of  a  large  and  popular  New 
York  magazine  made  the  following  pointed  remark: 

"It  is  remarkable,"  he  said,  "that  what  is  called  the 
practical  sense  of  Christendom  virtually  rejects  the  Christian 
Ideals  as  impracticable. ' ' 

Now   since   this   statement   applies   to    Christendom    in 


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general    but    not   to  all   individual  Christians,    we   therefore 
appeal  to  individuals. 

We  shall  be  glad  to  receive  financial  aid  from  those  men 
and  women  who  heartily  believe  in  the  present  practicability 
of  the  Golden  Rule  and  the  Decalogue,  and  who  believe  that 
the  time  has  come  to  establish  an  educational  and  industrial 
Institution  that  shall  teach,  preach,  practice,  and  illustrate 
before  the  world,  not  only  the  possibility,  but  the  practicability, 
the  usefullness,  the  blessedness,  and  the  moral  necessity,  of 
living  a  Biblical  Christian  life  every  hour  in  the  day,  and 
every  day  in  the  year. 

And  we  want,  we  need,  and  we  expect,  from  lovers  of 
the  Golden  Rule,  an  abundant  supply  of  the  Lord's  money  to 
ultimate  and  endow  this  Golden  Rule  College — this  Soul- 
Building  School  of  Life. 

Except  the  Lord  build  the  house,  they  labor  in  vain  that 
build  it — Psalm  127:1. 

So  far  as  contributors  desire,  amounts  given,  either  large 
or  small,  may  be  made  known  to  the  public.  But  it  would 
seem  more  in  harmony  with  the  Divine  character  and  heavenly 
mission  of  this  Institution,  to  have  it  initiated  and  perpetuated 
according  to  the  Divine  idea  of  not  letting  the  left  hand  know 
what  the  right  hand  doeth.  But  reports  will  be  sent  to  each 
contributor  who  desires  it,  stating  just  how  his  monies  are 
used. 

This  Institution  is  founded  on  the  Rock  Christ  Jesus;  on 
the  eternal  verities  of  the  old  yet  ever-growing  Gospel  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

All  persons  willing  to  assist  and  encourage  the  immediate 
establishment  of  a  Celestial  Institution,  on  this  progressive 
little  earth  of  ours,  will  please  address, 

CHESTER  E.  FOKD, 

Auburn,   Placer  County,  California. 
May  15,   1905. 


School  of  Christian  Ideals 


FOR 


The  Outward  Natural  Life  and  for  th 
Inward  Spiritual  Life. 


3VI.A.Y, 


No  Well-Disposed  Person,  Young  or  Old,  c 
Read  this  Circular  Through  Thoughtfully 
Without  being  Personally  Bene- 
fitted  Thereby. 


Gaylord  Bros. 

Makers 

Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
PAT,  JAN,  21 ,1908 


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